Jia Zhangke’s first feature in six years is a sweeping epic anchored by the captivating Zhao Tao, his muse and most frequent collaborator.
Finally free from the Marvel machine, Ryan Coogler delivers the goods and then some with his music-powered, genre-splicing latest.
Alain Guiraudie defies neat categorisation with his shapeshifting eighth feature about morality, crime and queer desire.
The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood present a world perceived through autism in this wonderfully experimental, hybrid endeavour.
Tensions flare between front of house and kitchen staff in Alonso Ruizpalacios' Times Square restaurant-set drama.
A small grey cat embarks on a big adventure in Gints Zilbalodis' charming Oscar winner.
A former judge finds himself confined to a nursing home where a sinister puppet rules the roost in James Ashcroft's effective horror.
By Anton Bitel
Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight.
By Lucy Peters
Filmmaker Raoul Peck unearths the searing social realist photographs of an artist whose work was thought to be lost.
Robert Pattinson stars as a so-called expendable in Bong Joon Ho's hotly anticipated follow-up to Parasite, facing off against perma-tanned megalomaniacs and croissant-shaped creatures.
Walter Salles returns to narrative filmmaking with a sensitive depiction of the forced disappearance of former congressman Rubens Paiva, and the devastation his family faced.
By Violet Lucca
A glorious, multifarious and modern rethink of the coming of age story as filtered through superhero movies, stand-up and the trans experience.
Tensions reach fever pitch in a rural Irish farming community in Christopher Andrews' fierce feature debut.
Anime director Naoko Yamada returns with a wonderful coming-of-ager set in a Catholic girls' boarding school.
By Mark Asch
Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mike Leigh makes a welcome return to contemporary filmmaking with a searing portrait of a woman on the brink.
Steven Soderbergh plays with the cinematic form to craft a compelling story about family dynamics and grief.
Adrien Brody is phenomenal in Brady Corbet's sublime three-and-a-half hour drama, as a Jewish architect arrives in post-war America to a hostile new world.
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